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i respect your opinion. i agree it is tough to make a business for writer and artist these days. same goes for game programmers, wow talk about a march to the
by iamjdg 11y ago
i respect your opinion. i agree it is tough to make a business for writer and artist these days. same goes for game programmers, wow talk about a march to the pricing bottom.
but why fight what the market wants with paywalls?
for me it's the "nickel and dime" thing, not just simply paying for quality product. i can't stand it. i want to pay for everything once, in an indirect way, that is almost unnoticeable to me.
have you ever driven in switzerland and italy? you enter switzerland and you pay 40 euros to use their roads and you sort of hate switzerland for it. then you enter italy and you don't pay anything and then all of the sudden you start hitting pay gates every so often and you end up paying double what you did in switzerland.
i fear for where these paywalls will take the internet in the future...i want something more like driving in switzerland than in italy
- rayalez 11y agoYeah, I completely agree that the current system sucks. There needs to be some universal way to conveniently pay small sums of money for viewing an article or watching a video. It would be awesome if there would be some generally accepted system that allows you to embed a button on your website and accomplish that in one click. Maybe it even exist, I'm not sure(if it does it's not widely accepted enough), also maybe there's more elegant and clever way of doing that. But to me it seems like a great startup idea, if someone could solve this problem a lot of people would be happy.
- iamjdg 11y agoit does sound like a good start up idea. if you can crack the internet rewards system that satisfies both buyers and seller, you would be really onto something. it fits with peter thiels philosophy from zero to one: what is nobody else doing?" "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?"